How to negate/ "reverse mean" this search - that is "!" the meaning

Question

if [[ -n  $(find $path  -name "$string*")  ]]
then
    <stuff>
else

<stuff>

fi

I want to reverse the above search like

 if [[ ! -n  $(find $path  -name "$string*")  ]]
then
    <stuff>
else

<stuff>

fi

But it wont allow this because here I am checking the find commands output any clue.thanks for help

Answer 1

You can reverse the search in find itself using:

find "$path" ! -name "$string*"

btw this is also valid:

[[ ! -n $(find $path -name "$string*") ]]

Or else you can use -z:

[[ -z $(find $path -name "$string*") ]]